EXP 10 STATUS 28 OCTOBER 2004

Submitted by Arthur - N1ORC - Amsat A/C #31468
* New Crew Continues ISS Familiarization, Conducts Drill*
Expedition 10 Commander Leroy Chiao and Flight Engineer Salizhan
Sharipov on Thursday continued to familiarize themselves with the
International Space Station. They conducted an emergency evacuation
drill that is mandatory for a new crew. Expedition 10 took over Station
operations Saturday when Expedition 9 departed.
Chiao and Sharipov also took advantage of the standard one-hour session
for ISS familiarization. Each new crew receives an hour each day during
the first two weeks aboard the Station. Also, the crew reviewed
procedures for inspecting windows in the Russian segment.
On the science front, the crewmembers participated in the first session
of a Russian biomedical assessment. They recorded their body mass and
calf volume measurements for the experiment, which is studying changes
to the body in microgravity.
Chiao also changed a lens of the camera in the Destiny Laboratory Module
<http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/assembly/elements/uslab/index.html>
being used for the Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students
(EarthKAM) experiment
<http://www1.msfc.nasa.gov/NEWSROOM/background/facts/earthkam.html>.
EarthKAM allows students to use the Internet to control a special
digital camera in the ISS to photograph and examine Earth from the
crew's perspective.
On the ground, Expedition 9 Commander Gennady Padalka and NASA ISS
Science Officer Mike Fincke are in Star City, Russia, for several weeks
of post-flight debriefings and medical exams before returning to Houston
in mid-November.
International Space Station Status Report No. 58
<http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/issreports/2004/iss04-58.html>.
----
Via the sarex mailing list at AMSAT.ORG courtesy of AMSAT-NA.
To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe sarex" to Majordomo@amsat.org